Sustaining Health

Does Your City Have Clean Drinking Water? Now it’s Pittsburg reporting elevated lead levels in their drinking water. The cause is the same as in Flint, Michigan: managers of the city’s water tried to save money and changed the chemical used to control corrosion of metals in the old pipes in the city.

How can you sustain your health? Before the discovery of antibiotics, the most common cause of death around the world was infections. If people cut themselves, had an accident, caught a bacterial infection from another person’s sneeze or cough, drank water with bacteria in it, or gave birth with a “doctor” who didn’t believe in